John Kaye (bishop)
Bishop John Kaye (27 December 1783, Hammersmith – 18 February 1853, Riseholme, Lincolnshire) was an English churchman.
Life
He was born the only son of Abraham Kaye in Hammersmith, London and educated at the school of Sir Charles Burney in Hammersmith and then Greenwich. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge and graduated Senior wrangler in 1804.[1] He was the 21st Master of Christ's College from 1814 to 1830,[2] Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1814,[3] Bishop of Bristol from 1820 to 1827 and Bishop of Lincoln from 1827 until his death. He reformed the educational requirements for the Anglican clergy and attacked the Tractarians for betraying the English Reformation.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1811.
He is buried in Lincoln Cathedral beneath a recumbent effigy by Richard Westmacott.[4]
References
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- ↑ Christ's College - People
- ↑ Vice-Chancellor's Office: Cambridge Vice-Chancellors
- ↑ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, Rupert Gunnis
- E. A. Varley, ‘Kaye, John (1783–1853)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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| Preceded by | Master of Christ's College, Cambridge 1814-1830 |
Succeeded by John Graham |
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Bristol 1820–1827 |
Succeeded by Robert Gray |
| Preceded by | Bishop of Lincoln 1827–1853 |
Succeeded by John Jackson |
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- 1783 births
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- People from Hammersmith
- Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Masters of Christ's College, Cambridge
- Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
- Bishops of Lincoln
- Bishops of Bristol
- 19th-century Anglican bishops
- Senior Wranglers
- Fellows of the Royal Society
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